The DIRC detector at the SLAC B-factory PEP-II: Operational experience and performance for physics application

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 502, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-75

  Schwiening, J ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

B meson decays; BABAR Experiment; Cherenkov detector; Particle identification system

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; FUSED SILICA; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENCE; PARTICLE DETECTORS; RADIATION; REFLECTION;

RING IMAGING; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

CERENKOV COUNTERS;

EID: 0037544462     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)02160-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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